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FOLIO SOCIETY - 'HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES' illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, 'GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES', illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Perrault's Fairy Tales illustrated by Edmund Dulac and Nathaniel Hawthorne - 'A Mid-Summer Night's Dream' illustrated by W. Heath Robinson all in individual slipcases (4)
'The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia', edited Andrew Garran, illustrated under the supervision of Frederic B. Schell, Sydney, Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company, circa 1886, volumes 1 & 2 (of 3 volumes), the two volumes present covering Australia, (volume 3 not present covers New Zealand and Pacific Islands), added engraved title pages, 15 maps (of which 3 folding railway/postal/telegraph maps and others mainly double page coloured), 27 full page plates and over 800 in text vignette illustrations throughout as called for, folio, original publishers presentation full crushed morocco gilt bindings, (vol I green, vol II brown, slightly worn, vol II inner joints weak), all edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt (2)
Hessen-Darmstadt Hessen-Darmstadt Johannes Tacke: Unverweslicher Ceder-Baum, zu ewigem Andencken und Namens Unsterblichkeit, des Durchleuchtigsten Fürsten und Herrn, Herrn Georgen des Andern, Landgraffens zu Hessen (...). Ohne Ort u. Jahr (Darmstadt, ca. 1666). Mit 83 Kupfertafeln (davon sechs gefaltet, komplett). Seltenes, prachtvoll illustriertes Gedenkwerk für den Landgrafen Georg II. von Hessen-Darmstadt (1605-1661). Unter den Stichen sind über 30 fürstliche Stammbäume mit Ansichten von Residenzstädten wie Ansbach, Berlin, Bonn, Dresden, Heidelberg, München sowie europäischen Städten wie Florenz, London, Madrid, Paris, Wien. Weitere Stiche mit Hochzeitsszenen und anderen Festlichkeiten sowie Widmungs- und Lobgedichten mit reicher allegorischer Randverzierung. (Die Anfangsblätter und -tafeln best., fleckig, eingerissen, am Rand teilw. verstärkt, im Laufe des Bandes bessert sich der Zustand). Es fehlt der Titel, der später jed. am Anfang des Textteils erscheint. Zwei Ex-libris Aufkleber: Bibliotheca Palatina, Bibl. C. Draudt. Schadhafter u. fleckiger Pergamenteinband. Gr.-Folio. (51 x 35 cm).
David McKitterick - Wallpapers by Edward Bawden, printed at The Curwen Press, folio, printed by The Whittington Press, 1989, this edition of 120 copies is set in 14-point Walbaum and printed at Whittington on Oxford mould made paper. The half-tone and colour plates are printed at the Senecio Press, and the edition is bound at the Fine Bindery. Forty copies (41-80) are quarter bound in buckram and birds nest paper, and contain sheets or parts of sheets of seven original wallpapers. This is copy number 77 (original slip-case)
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (Russian, 1832-1898)OFORTY 1885-1886 twenty-four etched plates from the series of twenty-five, published in St. Petersburg by A.E. Pal'chikov, 1886. Folio, printed on silk laid on card in various sizes, in mounts, in the original cloth portfolio, with title reproduced in silk on upper coverchromolithographsize of largest: 35 x 21 cm (13 3/4 x 8 1/4 in).(24)Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate collection, MilanFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Gwasg Gregynog.- Miscellanea, one of 25 copies, a portfolio of printing ephemera from the press comprising specimen leaves, prospectuses, greetings card etc. and many prints including 3 signed wood-engravings by Frank Martin printed in green & black (one duplicated) and others unsigned by Kyffin Williams, Rigby Graham (2 double-page colour woodcuts), Gaylord Schannilec and many others, loose in original red cloth drop-backed box with ties, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog, [2009]; and 2 others from the press including another, similar, from 2005 (blue edition of c.450 copies), folio (3)
Boyd (William) Cork, letter "g" of 26 lettered copies hand-coloured by the artist and signed by the author and artist, from an edition limited to 236, hand-coloured frontispiece by Ian Beck, original morocco-backed patterned boards with paper label to upper cover, 1994; and 7 others, William Boyd, 8vo & oblong folio (8)
NO RESERVE Eton College.- Eton College Chronicle, 2 vol., a good run of issues from 9th May, 1918 to 31st December, 1923, double column, occasional pen marking and spotting, contemporary half morocco, gilt, with arms of the college to upper covers, spines faded, rubbed, small folio, 1918-1923.⁂ Includes a piece by A.A. Milne ('Going Abroad', no.1765, 24th March, 1921); George Orwell (E.A. Blair) listed as a pupil, Etonian Generals of WWI, pieces on fagging and bullying and cricket and rugby match reports.
Routledge (William) and Louis N. Parker, The Children's Musical Cinderella, frontispiece and illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, very slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1879 § Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Elaine, frontispiece and plates by Gustave Doré, previous owner's ink inscription dated Xmas 1866, occasional faint spotting, ex-library with label and occasional small ink-stamps, small loss to final leaf, neatly restored, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1867, 4to & folio (2)
Guillim (John) A Display of Heraldrie, armorial illustrations, many hand-coloured, occasional manuscript notes and diagrams, lacking front free endpaper, 3 short marginal tears (2A2-3 & 2Y1), small hole (2P3), previous owner's signature to title (scored out), title becoming loose, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, small folio, by Richard Badger for Ralph Mab, 1632.
Europe.- Taylor (Bayard, editor) Picturesque Europe, 3 vol., engraved frontispieces, additional engraved titles and 56 plates, illustrations, many full-page, occasional faint spotting, short tear to final leaf (vol. 3), original decorative morocco, gilt, very slight bumping to corners and extremities, folio, New York, 1875-79.
Sidney (Sir Philip, author and courtier, 1554-86) Copy Letter to Lord Burghley, 1p. with conjugate blank, folio, "At Court", 27th January 1582, but watermarked Royal arms of England, [c. 1697], "The Queen, at my Lord of Warwick's request, hath been moved to join me in his office of Ordnance, and, as I learn, her Majesty yields gracious hearing unto it. My suit is, your Lordship will favour and further it, which I truly affirm unto your Lordship I much more desire for the being busied in a thing of some serviceable experience than for anv other commodity, which I think is but small, that can arise of it", small tear along fold, folds, slightly browned; and 2 other late 17th century manuscripts (1 torn), with contemporary notes on John Hobbes, v.s., v.d. (3 pieces).
NO RESERVE Shakespeare Head Press.- Beerbohm (Max) Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story, one of 750 copies signed by the artist, double-page colour plates by Osbert Lancaster, original blue morocco-backed striped turquoise and white "Bullingdon" boards, spine gilt, t.e.g., glacine wrappers, pictorial slip-case, small folio, Oxford, Shakespeare Head Press, 1975.
Palmerston (Henry John Temple, third Viscount, Prime Minister, 1784-1865) Letter signed to H.P. Rowe, 1p., folio, War Office, 17th August 1818, referring to the Disallowances made on the settlement of the accounts of the Durham Corps of Volunteers 1800-02, small tear in left margin, folds, browned and creased, removed from an album.
Erotica.- Fini (Léonor).- Réage (Pauline) Histoire d'O, number 79 of 350 copies, 16 colour plates by Léonor Fini, illustrations, loose as issued, original stiff paper chemise, a little rubbed, housed in original velvet chemise, original velvet slipcase, folio, Paris, 1962.⁂ This edition calls for 12 plates by Fini, but this copy, like others, contains 16 plates.
NO RESERVE Millais (John Guille) The Life And Letters Of Sir John Everett Millais, 2 vol., 7 photogravure plates (2 as frontispieces), plates, illustrations, occasional spotting, original decorative cloth, gilt, little rubbed, a good set, Methuen & Co., 1899; and 4 others, miscellaneous, 8vo & folio (6)
NO RESERVE United States of America.- Bryant (Andrew, editor) Picturesque America, 2 vol., engraved frontispieces, additional engraved titles, 44 plates only (of 45), illustrations, many full-page, pp.9-16 misbound (vol. 1), occasional marginal damp-staining, occsaional faint off-setting, contemporary morocco, gilt, bumping to corners and extremities, folio, New York, 1872.
Duke of Monmouth & Glorious Revolution.-The Lady Gray Vindicated: being an Answer to a Popish Pamphlet, entituled A True Relation, of a strange Apparition that appeared to the Lady Gray, commanding her to deliver a Message to his Grace the Duke of Monmouth, broadside, slightly stained, [Wing L165], folio, 1681 § The Ballance Adjusted: Or, the Interest of Church and State Weighed and Considered upon this Revolution, drophead title, folds, browned, slightly foxed, [Wing B540], sm. 4to, n.p., n.d. [?1688]; and 7 other pieces, v.s., v.d. (9 pieces).
Fleece Press.- Lee (Brian North, editor) Dearest Joana: A selection of Joan Hassall's lifetime letters and art, 2 vol. one of 40 specially-bound copies with additional wood-engravings, original vellum-backed marbled boards, 2000 § Buckland Wright (Christopher, editor) Surreal Times: The Abstract Engravings and Wartime Letters of John Buckland Wright, one of 210 copies from an edition limited to 260, original cloth-backed patterned boards, 2000, plates and illustrations, slip-cases, Denby Dale, Fleece Press; and 2 others, small and oblong folio (5)
Photography.- Block (M. P.) Der Gigant an der Ruhr, illustrations, many full-page, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight chipping to corners and spine extremities, Berlin, 1928 § Hamilton (Peter) Robert Doisneau: la Vie d'un Photographe, illustrations, many full-page, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, dust-jacket, slight creasing to corners and spine extremities, Paris, 1995; and another, Japanese theatre, folio & 4to (3)
Medals.- Dassier (John [Jean] & Son, medal makers) An explanation of Dassier's medals of the sovereigns of England, 6 engraved plates (the first signed 'London published 1st Jan., 1797 M. Young, Ludgate Hill), each c.284 x 368mm., 8 ff. of explanatory text, subscription form for 'Dassier's Medals of the Roman History' dated 1797, bound in at start, little marginal water-staining or mostly light soiling to plates, occasional spotting, contemporary stitched marbled wrappers, little creasing, oblong small folio, M. Young, Ludgate Hill, 1797.⁂ A very good copy of a rare work in commerce. Dassier was a Swiss medalist, who following in the footsteps of his father became chief engraver at the Geneva mint. In 1731 he issued a series of medals dedicated to George II, which depicted British sovereigns from William the Conqueror to George II.
Rilke (Rainer Maria) Puppen, first edition, one of 150 copies, 16 hand-coloured plates by Lotte Prizel, some light foxing, original cloth-backed decorated boards, plain dust-jacket, spotted and borwned, chipping to head of spine and corners, card slip-case with paper label to upper cover, some wear to corners, small folio, Munich, 1921.
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